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Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#creativity #poetry #poets #reality #writers

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be? ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #art

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. ↗

— John Cheever

#fiction #inspirational #on-fiction #writing #art

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#orginality #truth #writing #art

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#art

I am a writer of fragments. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#fragments #i #i am #writer

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision. ↗

— Jewel Kilcher

#had #i #most #respect #vision

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#anyone #anything #anywhere #because #being

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#claiming #distrusted #easier #fiction #get

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life